*Many counties around us have been experiencing highway easement, grass,
and pasture land fires. Thank goodness for San Augustine's citizens being
careful with their open fires....knock on wood...and hope that others don't
visit and break that record. *
*Yes,* there is a *bur**n ban in effect* for San Augustine County. We are
in a stage 2 drought condition that is worsening each day we have no
measurable rain. I will send out the criteria for the burn ban in an email
tomorrow.
*The following is what we have had rain wise since our very wet August.*
- The *lowest total* for the month of October over the last 38 years
that I have records on.... *only .07 of an inch. *
- Jerry Nickerson chews tobacco and spits more than that amount.
- And...September was almost as bad.... only .72 verses our 2010 record
of .80 inches for the 38 year period.
*Below is the rainfall totals for September for the County without our
manual input folks.*
- *San Augustine .72 inches*
- *North from Geoff Reeder .37 inches*
- *North from Norman Neel *(I will give later as my AT&T/Yahoo account
is again in the toilet. Norman sent it to me, just can not access any
sbcglobal.net emails).
- *South from Broaddus .73 inches*
- *Etoile on the lake caught 3.97 inches....???*
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*The following is the rainfall totals for October for the same reporting
stations.*
- *San Augustine .07 inches *
- *North from Geoff Reeder .07 inches*
- *Norman Neel is off line*
- *South from Broaddus .15 inches*
- *Etoile .39 mostly boat splashes and bird visits like in September.*
*Our forecast....*
- 10 day outlook says some better chances for rain beginning 11/07 for a
couple of days *BUT,* trying to get a good view of weather is almost
impossible that far out....especially with Mother Nature controlling it.
- We will begin a cooling trend toward more normal temperatures on
Friday. With highs in the 70's and some upper 40's to low 50's during the
evening hours.
- *AND*...our humidity will take a dive to West Texas like.....*less
than 25%*
*Below is the listing of the records by month and year of the Highest and
Lowest rainfall for the past 38 years:*
*Historic Rainfall Month * *HIGH Rainfall Amount* *Year of HIGH Rainfall
Amount* *LOW Rainfall Amount* *Year of LOW Rainfall Amount*
Jan 12.10 1974 0.25 1971
Feb 9.30 1979 0.62 1996
Mar 10.45 2008 0.45 2011
Apr 9.20 1982 0.48 1987
May 13.24 2015 0.60 1988
Jun 19.42 1989 0.27 1974
Jul 12.45 2007 0.13 1993
*Aug* *11.84* *2016* 0.02 1985
Sep 10.80 1978 0.50 2007
*Oct* 14.90 2009 *0.07* *2016*
Nov 10.97 1986 1.11 1994
Dec 10.50 1982 1.20 1980/2010
*Annual rainfall total* *68.93* *1991* *31.85* *2010*
*Tom Johnson*
*KTXSANAU6*
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